My panda cory has friends again :)

[joannde]

About 3 wks ago I wrote about the mysterious rash of fish deaths that I've experienced. In the past 4 weeks I've planted the tank, treated with Maracyn 1 / Maracyn 2 (to kill any potential bacterial infection that caused all the mysterious deaths), had the temp up for 2+ weeks (saw a Platy flashing and thought the ick had returned), and recycled using Bio-Spira (antibiotics killed my biofilter). What a tough ride !

Last week I added three snakeskin guppies to the tank (after QTing them for a week) - they're doing great.

Today I added a mosaic guppy and two panda cories (Qt'd for a week).

MY PANDA HAS FRIENDS AGAIN. I've felt so bad for him being all alone, and I think he was really unhappy. He would spend hours zipping back and forth, up and down across the tank - to me it felt like he was trying desperately to find some buddies.

It took about 3 or 4 minutes for the 3 panda's to find each other and they're merrily traveling together.

I'm going to try and locate 3 or 4 more panda's tomorrow to complete the group (I would have gotten moe last week, but could only find the 2).

Oh happy day - my baby has friends again !

Hopefully I killed whatever the killer in my tank was - I'm hoping for a long and happy friendship between these three !!

 

[An t-iasg]

Oh, joannde, that's great news! You've been through some awful tank woes. Hopefully that is behind you now and all your new fishy buddies will be around for many years!

 

[lmw80]

That's great! It's so nice to hear someone bounce back from a set-back. We all experience them.

Now, about those pictures....

 

[rich311k]

Congrats and good luck. I am glad things are looking up for you.

 

[joannde]

The panda's are very happily playing follow the leader - gosh I love those little cuties !

No new pics at the moment - the diatoms are back with a vengence and I have a big ole sockfull of phosguard to absorb the phosphates. But I do have pics from when I planted it on June 30th. The red rubin sword has 7 or 8 new leaves already and each of the anubia nana's on the "tree" are growing a new leaf.

Here's the link to the thread with the pics:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=81892&highlight=planted

All the decor are personally handmade ceramic pieces - including the tree

 

[Zagz]

Congrats on the new fish. Glad to hear the troubles are behind you. I agree that is a great thing to hear of someone bouncing back from near disaster. The tank is looking really great. That homemade ceramic tree is really neat.

 

[joannde]

Thanks

I was watching the fish today and saw <<GASP>> a small white dot at the edge of the dorsal fin of one of the panda's (the one thats been in the tank the longest - my 'survivor'). I've been doing the ANTI ICK DANCE .... it just CAN"T be ICK again ! It can't be .....
I haven't seen any of the fish flashing ... I'm really hoping that its just my imagination or an irregularity in his coloring
This would be the third heat treatment in 2 months ! at this rate these fish are going to die of old age before they're even teenagers

And thanks for the compliments on the ceramic tree -the anubias are growing new leaves already and 2 have a teeny flower. The fish really seem to enjoy picking the algae off the leaves and from between the roots.